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I think this group is a great idea and a worthy goal, but the question is how do we achieve this or at least how do we take practical steps to it?I know of many different attempts to unify various…Continue

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Considering that CTA changes bus/train schedules with some frequency, this might be something to consider in attracting ridership. It's a monthly, ongoing topic at our meetings.

http://www.ctariders.org/TransitExperience.html“the speed of the proposed service gets more political attention than how frequently it runs, even though frequency, which determines waiting time, often matters more than speed in determining how long your trip will take.” Drivers don’t wonder when their cars are going to show up."“The prevailing habit of most transit systems,” he writes, “is to advertise where they go but to treat when as though it were a detail.” The map, in other words, dwells larger in the imagination than the timetable ... Transit agencies hardly help matters by printing maps where all lines seem to promise the “same kind of product,” when, in fact, one line may run every ten 10 minutes and the other twice a day. “A transit map that makes all the lines look equal,” writes Walker, “is like a road map that doesn’t show the difference between a freeway and a gravel road.”Meeting on Monday There will be a meeting on Monday, April 2nd, of Citizens Taking Action for preservation of public transit from 7-9:00 PM, 77 W. Washington, 4th Floor http://www.ctariders.org/ Agenda: Plans for Sale of Red Line etc by Mayor through Investment Trust, Public-Private Partnership Rally on Wednesday

National Day of Action for public transportation called by Occupy and endorsed by ATU International, actions planned in 18+ cities, 6:00 PM, CTA Headquarters, 567 W. Lake Street

Destroying mountains and dumping toxic waste in communities’ waters is wrong. Please urge the Obama administration to stand strong amid coal industry attacks and to protect the waters and people of Appalachia. Take Action Today!

Across the political spectrum, Americans agree that the Citizens United decision, allowing unlimited corporate spending on elections, has been a disaster – and that the Super PACs doing most of that spending should be banned. The Super PAC-funded attack ads dominating the Republican primaries have become national jokes. Tell Congress and your state legislators to tax Super PACs at 99%.

Walk a block with us, walk a mile with us, join us for a stop along the way, or meet up with us in Crete. Below you will find the route and schedule — each day we will update as more details become available so that you can find out where we are and meet up with us. Check back often for daily updates! Also please see information and logistics for walkers.

WHY WE WALK - No detention of immigrants – not in any back yard! - Our families are being torn apart, so we walk together as one large family. - The walk is a expression of the experiences of communities who have been criminalized – we are committed to immigrant justice and to full human rights, full dignity, for all. We do not accept the division of good immigrants vs criminals. - No profit out of the criminalization, illegalization or incarceration of human beings - Borders and cages do not create just and safe communities - Detention is about dividing society into prisoners and their jailers. Creating an incarceration nation will devastate all our communities. We refuse to be the captives, and we refuse to be the captors. - Detention is about an open market in the business of selling human lives. Detention centers are a new prison experiment, an old product re-packaged in new ways. Detention camps, concentration camps, interment camps, prisons serve the same repressive function

Our country has literally no limits on the carbon pollution that is causing catastrophic climate change and that is freely spewed by power plants.

Yesterday, The Environmental Protection Agency finally proposed a rule to change that. Unfortunately, not by very much.1

The EPA's first ever rule limiting carbon pollution — known as the Carbon Pollution Standard — applies only to unlikely-to-be-built, new coal-fired power plants. It is riddled with loopholes allowing new sources of pollution including some new coal plants. It does nothing to reduce carbon pollution from much more significant existing sources.

It's sad that our political climate has been made so toxic by climate change denying Republicans — who literally voted to deny the science of climate change2 — that the very acknowledgement of the need to regulate carbon pollution by EPA is a victory and a positive step forward.

But in today's actual climate — where much of our country just experienced record-shattering March heat waves after a disturbing lack of winter — it is not nearly enough. It is not only disappointing but profoundly dangerous that this rule does little if anything to effectively reduce unregulated climate pollution.

The EPA will now accept public comments on the rule — and as it weighs the public's reaction, we need to show that we expect much, much more from EPA to regulate carbon pollution.

If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the individual mandate for healthcare this summer and even if it doesn't, we should be aware that this was never a real solution and that something better is available. We should make Congress and our state legislatures aware now.Tell them single-payer healthcare is the way.Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone without mandating the purchase of health insurance from private corporations. They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.Congress has the Constitutional right to pass laws "necessary and proper for carrying into execution" its powers, including providing for the "general welfare." Medicare and veterans' healthcare are single-payer systems that could easily be expanded to include everyone. It is arguably not "necessary and proper" to require people to buy an expensive, inadequate product from a private corporation.If the individual mandate ends, let's not lose heart. Let's seize the opportunity. States are moving ahead with single-payer, but Obama's healthcare law included measures aimed at making it harder for states to act. Vermont has passed single-payer and is struggling with these hurdles now.An amendment to fix this was passed in House committee during the 2009 healthcare debate but then unceremoniously stripped out by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Tell Congress to allow states to create single-payer now.Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.Signed, Aimee, David, Jeff, Sarah and the Roots Action TeamP.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like you; your donations are greatly appreciated.

Join Chicago area peace activists in the first of many monthly protests outside of the TIAA-CREF office in Chicago. TIAA-CREF is one of the largest financial services in the United States, considered to be one of the largest retirement systems in the world. We call on TIAA-CREF to stop investing in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation. We invite you to join us in this historic campaign.

Sponsored by: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Jewish Voice for Peace - Chicago (JVP-Chicago), and the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP)

Thurs., March 29, 5:15 pm - 7 pmChicago Club (81 E. Van Buren)Directions Info: 773-463-0311Former Israeli Prime Mininster Ehud Olmert is being hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Olmert served as Prime Minister of Israel during both the 2006 war on Lebanon and the 2008-09 Gaza Massacre. The attack on Lebanon resulted in over 1,000 deaths, while the Gaza offensive left over 1,400 dead and many thousands injured.Also: Serving as chairman for The Chicago Council is Lester Crown, a local billionaire and one of Israel's most prominent American supporters. He and his family have earned their fortune through their personal involvement with General Dynamics, a company that ranks among the world's largest defense contractors and weapons manufacturers.Stand with Palestine! End the Wars and Occupations!U.S. Out of the Middle East!War Criminals are not Welcome in Chicago!